Gordon Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3656938 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3424-5519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Phase-based concerns of caregivers for individuals with a bipolar disorder
BACKGROUND: Caregivers have a key role in providing social and practical support for individuals with bipolar disorder. As such, their perspectives are uniquely important when collaborative decisions are made on management priorities and potential treatment options. AIMS: This study aims to identify common concerns that caregivers have in the management of an individual with a bipolar disorder. METHOD: 111 caregivers were recruited from online ad…
Australian dental practitioners experience of burnout
Australian dental practitioners appear to be at high risk of burnout which may impact on their health and wellbeing and ability to deliver patient care. There is a need for support services to manage burnout and education to address workplace and environmental factors that may contribute to burnout
Burnout
Further Examination of the Properties of the Workplace Well-Being Questionnaire (WWQ)
Gender differences in depression
It is commonly suggested that a female preponderance in depression is universal and substantial. This review considers that proposition and explanatory factors. The view that depression rates are universally higher in women is challenged with exceptions to the proposition helping clarify candidate explanations. 'Real' and artefactual explanations for any such phenomenon are considered, and the contribution of sex role changes, social factors and …
What happens after diagnosis? Understanding the experiences of patients with newly‐diagnosed bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder is chronic condition involving episodes of both depression and elevated mood, associated with significant disability and high relapse rates. Recent estimates suggest a lifetime prevalence of 5%. Little is known about the subjective experiences of patients after receiving a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and the impact of these experiences on patients' willingness and ability to work with their health professionals to find the mos…
The Long and the Short of It
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether the strategies people use to cope with stress were associated with differing serotonin transporter (5-HTT) genotypes. The short (s) variant of the 5-HTT promoter polymorphism has been associated with an increased likelihood of depression after significant life stress and greater emotional reactivity to fear-invoking stimuli. METHODS: Coping strategies were assessed within a longitudinal study in 1993. Ten years later…
Assessing Outcome in Community Mental Health Patients
Background: We undertook a twelve-month intervention study for community mental health patients using a number of measures administered at baseline and at twelve months. Overall improvement in that sample allowed for comparative analyses of the key measures in terms of their ability to measure and to predict outcome. Aims: To assess and compare the usefulness of each of the measures in predicting outcome status. Methods: A patient-rated quality o…
Depression in the Planet’s Largest Ethnic Group
OBJECTIVE: The authors reviewed the evidence for the claim that the Chinese tend to deny depression or express it somatically, examined the possible determinants of those characteristics, and explored implications of the findings for the diagnosis and management of depression in China and for psychiatry in the WEST: METHOD: This paper reviews and interprets original studies and literature reviews considering emotional distress, depression, neuras…
Invited commentary diagnostic line-drawing
(1999). Invited commentary diagnostic line-drawing: How to pick an eagle from a turkey. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 30-34
Parental Divorce and Its Effects on the Quality of Intimate Relationships in Adulthood
We examined whether exposure to parental divorce had any influence on quality of intimate attachments in adulthood, in a sample of 146 adults from "divorced" and "intact" families. Early attachment to parents was assessed by the Parental Bonding Instru- ment (PBI) and a modification of (he Personal Relationships Ques- 'tiomaire (PRQ), while another modified PRQ rated attachment to the intimate partner. The "divorced" group scored their parents'. …
Reliability of Parental Reports Using the Katz Adjustment Scales
We examined the interrater and test-retest reliability of the KATZ Adjustment Scale (Relative rated or R form) longitudinally in a sample of schizophrenic patients, assessing their function before hospital admission, as well as at 1 and 9 mo. after discharge. Changes in mean scores over those assessments suggested sensitivity to change while mothers and fathers both completed the measure with moderate consistency over time. Interrater reliability…
Childhood bereavement circumstances associated with adult depression
Seventy‐nine women whose mothers had died during the subjects' childhood and whose fathers had remarried were studied to determine how bereavement might dispose to depression in adulthood. Lower social class appeared the most consistent predictor. The sudden death of the mother, the older age of the child, the perception of family support as being deficient in the immediate post‐bereavement phase, a longer delay between the mother's death and the…
Parental representations and affective symptoms
Parental characteristics of low care and overprotection have been linked with several grades of depression and anxiety in studies of clinical and non‐clinical groups. The possibility that such associations could be spurious ones, brought about by an hereditary influence, was examined in a non‐clinical group of adoptees ( n = 109). If an hereditary influence accounted for previous findings no associations between such parental characteristics and …
Parental representations of transsexuals
The doctor' husband
A study of 162 females, actively employed as medical practitioners, was conducted to examine perceived characteristics of their husbands and to determine whether such attributes might relate to the women's commitment to and satisfaction with medical practice. A questionnaire assessing personality characteristics of such husbands was produced by a factor analytic technique, and the final measure is tabled. Eighteen items loaded clearly on one of t…
The relevance of early parental experiences to adult dependency, hypochondriasis and utilization of primary physicians
The possible relationships between early parental experiences and three adult characteristics regarded as having a care‐eliciting component (dependency, hypochondriasis and utilization of health care services) were examined in a study of 100 consecutive patients attending their general practitioner. Assessment of presumed ongoing fundamental parental characteristics was made, together with assessment of parental response to childhood illness in t…
A Parental Bonding Instrument
A Parental Bonding Instrument
Further Examination of the Properties of the Workplace Well-Being Questionnaire (WWQ)
Parental representations of transsexuals
The relevance of early parental experiences to adult dependency, hypochondriasis and utilization of primary physicians
The possible relationships between early parental experiences and three adult characteristics regarded as having a care‐eliciting component (dependency, hypochondriasis and utilization of health care services) were examined in a study of 100 consecutive patients attending their general practitioner. Assessment of presumed ongoing fundamental parental characteristics was made, together with assessment of parental response to childhood illness in t…
A Parental Bonding Instrument
The relevance of early parental experiences to adult dependency, hypochondriasis and utilization of primary physicians
The possible relationships between early parental experiences and three adult characteristics regarded as having a care‐eliciting component (dependency, hypochondriasis and utilization of health care services) were examined in a study of 100 consecutive patients attending their general practitioner. Assessment of presumed ongoing fundamental parental characteristics was made, together with assessment of parental response to childhood illness in t…
The doctor' husband
A study of 162 females, actively employed as medical practitioners, was conducted to examine perceived characteristics of their husbands and to determine whether such attributes might relate to the women's commitment to and satisfaction with medical practice. A questionnaire assessing personality characteristics of such husbands was produced by a factor analytic technique, and the final measure is tabled. Eighteen items loaded clearly on one of t…
Parental representations and affective symptoms
Parental characteristics of low care and overprotection have been linked with several grades of depression and anxiety in studies of clinical and non‐clinical groups. The possibility that such associations could be spurious ones, brought about by an hereditary influence, was examined in a non‐clinical group of adoptees ( n = 109). If an hereditary influence accounted for previous findings no associations between such parental characteristics and …
Parental representations of transsexuals
Childhood bereavement circumstances associated with adult depression
Seventy‐nine women whose mothers had died during the subjects' childhood and whose fathers had remarried were studied to determine how bereavement might dispose to depression in adulthood. Lower social class appeared the most consistent predictor. The sudden death of the mother, the older age of the child, the perception of family support as being deficient in the immediate post‐bereavement phase, a longer delay between the mother's death and the…
Reliability of Parental Reports Using the Katz Adjustment Scales
We examined the interrater and test-retest reliability of the KATZ Adjustment Scale (Relative rated or R form) longitudinally in a sample of schizophrenic patients, assessing their function before hospital admission, as well as at 1 and 9 mo. after discharge. Changes in mean scores over those assessments suggested sensitivity to change while mothers and fathers both completed the measure with moderate consistency over time. Interrater reliability…
Parental Divorce and Its Effects on the Quality of Intimate Relationships in Adulthood
We examined whether exposure to parental divorce had any influence on quality of intimate attachments in adulthood, in a sample of 146 adults from "divorced" and "intact" families. Early attachment to parents was assessed by the Parental Bonding Instru- ment (PBI) and a modification of (he Personal Relationships Ques- 'tiomaire (PRQ), while another modified PRQ rated attachment to the intimate partner. The "divorced" group scored their parents'. …
Invited commentary diagnostic line-drawing
(1999). Invited commentary diagnostic line-drawing: How to pick an eagle from a turkey. Australian Psychologist: Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 30-34
Depression in the Planet’s Largest Ethnic Group
OBJECTIVE: The authors reviewed the evidence for the claim that the Chinese tend to deny depression or express it somatically, examined the possible determinants of those characteristics, and explored implications of the findings for the diagnosis and management of depression in China and for psychiatry in the WEST: METHOD: This paper reviews and interprets original studies and literature reviews considering emotional distress, depression, neuras…
Assessing Outcome in Community Mental Health Patients
Background: We undertook a twelve-month intervention study for community mental health patients using a number of measures administered at baseline and at twelve months. Overall improvement in that sample allowed for comparative analyses of the key measures in terms of their ability to measure and to predict outcome. Aims: To assess and compare the usefulness of each of the measures in predicting outcome status. Methods: A patient-rated quality o…
The Long and the Short of It
OBJECTIVE: To examine whether the strategies people use to cope with stress were associated with differing serotonin transporter (5-HTT) genotypes. The short (s) variant of the 5-HTT promoter polymorphism has been associated with an increased likelihood of depression after significant life stress and greater emotional reactivity to fear-invoking stimuli. METHODS: Coping strategies were assessed within a longitudinal study in 1993. Ten years later…
What happens after diagnosis? Understanding the experiences of patients with newly‐diagnosed bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder is chronic condition involving episodes of both depression and elevated mood, associated with significant disability and high relapse rates. Recent estimates suggest a lifetime prevalence of 5%. Little is known about the subjective experiences of patients after receiving a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and the impact of these experiences on patients' willingness and ability to work with their health professionals to find the mos…
Gender differences in depression
It is commonly suggested that a female preponderance in depression is universal and substantial. This review considers that proposition and explanatory factors. The view that depression rates are universally higher in women is challenged with exceptions to the proposition helping clarify candidate explanations. 'Real' and artefactual explanations for any such phenomenon are considered, and the contribution of sex role changes, social factors and …
Further Examination of the Properties of the Workplace Well-Being Questionnaire (WWQ)
Burnout
Phase-based concerns of caregivers for individuals with a bipolar disorder
BACKGROUND: Caregivers have a key role in providing social and practical support for individuals with bipolar disorder. As such, their perspectives are uniquely important when collaborative decisions are made on management priorities and potential treatment options. AIMS: This study aims to identify common concerns that caregivers have in the management of an individual with a bipolar disorder. METHOD: 111 caregivers were recruited from online ad…
Australian dental practitioners experience of burnout
Australian dental practitioners appear to be at high risk of burnout which may impact on their health and wellbeing and ability to deliver patient care. There is a need for support services to manage burnout and education to address workplace and environmental factors that may contribute to burnout
Psychology (18 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Depression (economics) (5 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (4 works) · Mental health (4 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)